Libyan security forces defuse car bomb in capital

Libyan security forces defused multiple car bombs planted outside a luxury hotel in the capital Tripoli on Monday. The car, loaded with 12 bombs and 10 gallons of fuel, was parked near the Radisson-Blu, a hotel popular with foreign business people. Interior Ministry spokesman Rami Kaal told Arab Today that the Libyan authorities had been following the car, which they believed to be stolen. It is the second such incident in recent days, after a rocket hit a residential building in the capital last week in an attack officials said may also have been aimed at a large hotel. Kaal said the Interior Ministry had implemented a new security strategy to deal with the increasing instability facing the country, explaining that security forces were being deployed in the key cities of Tripoli and Benghazi to prevent any further terrorist activity.